The Dark Side of Librarianship

Alright. I'll admit it. I HATE the first few weeks of school. Instead of greeting the students and welcoming them back after the summer, I get to spend long days getting computers and computer programs ready for them to use. And while that is definitely a worthwhile thing to do, I just don't want to be the one doing it. Oh well, thus is the life of a librarian!

I did however finally get to have my first checkouts this week. It was so good to have the kids in the library. They told me what they did over the summer and how much they read. I helped them find good books and smiled and told them how happy I was to see them (even though some of them I couldn't quite remember their names). By lunch, all of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books were gone and so were the Dork Diaries. By the time the last 6th grade group came through, there was only 1 Bluebonnet Book left. And surprisingly enough, they left the library in pretty good shape. I only had to straighten about 5 shelves at the end of the day. Not bad! So even though I had to talk about using a shelf marker 15 times, it turned out to be a good day.

So, really not much to share today. However, I am getting my orientation set up and finding fun books to read to them for the first lessons! I can't wait. But first, I must make sure that every student has their log in to Reading Counts! Sigh!